Captain Swan AU Week. Day 1: Crossover (12 Monkeys)
Killian Jones is sent back in time to stop a plague that wipes out most of the world’s population. But unbeknownst to the man who enlisted him, Killian has his sights set, not on saving the world, but on revenge. In order to succeed in this quest, Killian will require help from a citizen of the past–a woman who, in his time, is already dead.
YEAR
2012
The first time he met Emma Swan was not the first time Emma Swan had met him.
Killian had met an Emma that already knew him, already trusted him, an Emma that, upon seeing him enter the lobby of a hotel that would be rubble by year’s end, had made a beeline straight for him and said, “Where the hell have you been?”
When Killian’s answer came in the form of a scowl, she continued, “Henry was starting to worry he might never see you again. I thought you said—”
Finally reading the surprise on his face, she took in his full appearance, studying, scrutinizing, sizing him up against a version of himself he hadn’t yet become. Her gaze lingered on his left hand, curled into a fist from the pain that shot from his fingertips to his forearm. A sight that, for some unsettling reason, didn’t fit the image she already had of him.
“I was wondering when I’d meet you,” she said with a smile that chased away every trace of the concern with which she’d greeted him. “This you.”